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As a 10-year-old working in her father’s Main Street shoe store, Jeanne Cronce was taught that working together with others was essential to building a strong community.

Being a lifelong member of the community, Jeanne has excelled in doing her part to give back to the city of Shawano. After graduating from college, she came back to Shawano, where she taught for 25 years. Not shying away from a leadership opportunity, she then became a school principal for 12 years, during an era where women administrators were almost nonexistent.

Not only was she respected among educators, she also earned the respect of other community members who did not hesitate to elect her to other leadership positions — president of the Shawano Optimist Club, president of the St. James School Board, chairperson of the hospital board and, most recently, mayor of the city of Shawano.

Wearing a Green Bay Packers sweater while sitting near a podium at his beloved Lambeau Field, Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr looked up and smiled.

Behind Starr was memorabilia that Packers fans might view as priceless, including Starr’s 1967 championship ring for winning Super Bowl II and a 50th anniversary Super Bowl MVP jacket. He donated them to the Packers Hall of Fame.

“I’m really happy to be here,” Starr said softly on Monday, with his wife, Cherry nearby. “We’re really pleased to be here.”

The fact that he made the trip up from his home in Alabama might be the 83-year-old Starr’s most important victory of late. He joined other members of the 1967 title team for a celebration of the squad’s 50th anniversary over the weekend.

Starr is recovering from two strokes and a heart attack suffered in 2014. It has been an arduous road back for Starr.

Injured Green Bay Packers running back Ty Montgomery has a chance to play Sunday at Minnesota.

Montgomery was listed as full participant for a second straight day Thursday while wearing a flak jacket to protect broken ribs sustained against Chicago on Sept. 28. The practice

Thursday was the lone padded workout of the week and a key in determining his availability.

“I played with one in high school,” Montgomery said. “It’s very normal. A flak jacket is very normal. It’s not in the way or anything.”

Montgomery said he “felt fine” after getting hit a couple times.

“Based on what we’ve seen in practice, I think he can” play, running backs coach Ben Sirmans said Thursday night. “They have equipment now that can basically absorb any type of impact. Based on what he’s done the past two days, I would say that he’s moving around and it seems like he could play.

Out of all the talented receiving options on the Green Bay Packers, one stands above the rest inside the 20-yard line.

Few wideouts in the NFL have been as productive inside the red zone as Jordy Nelson.

Four of his league-best five scoring catches have come inside the 20, including two in the second half last week against the Chicago Bears. Last season, 11 of Nelson’s NFL-high 15 touchdown catches were in the red zone.

This is in part because of the volume of scoring opportunities on the Packers’ potent offense. The running game also hasn’t been consistently productive since the start of the 2016 season.

With quarterback Aaron Rodgers behind center, there is always a chance to score.

“Definitely on the same page with Aaron,” coach Mike McCarthy said Thursday about Nelson.

Packers receiver Davante Adams tweeted Friday that he was at home and “feeling great” a day after taking a frightening hit from Chicago Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan.

Adams was taken off the field on a stretcher with about 4 minutes left in the third quarter on Thursday night after getting hit in the head during a tackle by Trevathan. The game was delayed for about 5 minutes while medical personnel tended to Adams. He gave a thumbs-up signal as he was wheeled off the field.

The Packers said he was conscious and taken to a hospital for evaluation for possible head and neck injuries, and that he had feeling in all of his extremities.

Trevathan was called for an unnecessary roughness penalty following Adams’ 8-yard catch but was not ejected; any fine would not come to light until next week. Green Bay won the game 35-14.

Aaron Rodgers threw four touchdown passes and the injury-riddled Green Bay Packers converted three turnovers into scores in an eventful 35-14 victory over the mistake-prone Chicago Bears on Thursday night.

Rodgers connected with Davante Adams and Randall Cobb on short touchdown passes to help build a 21-0 lead in the second quarter of a game delayed 45 minutes by lightning between the first two quarters. The Packers overpowered the Bears down the stretch to slog out a win as intermittent rain fell at Lambeau Field.

The Packers lost two more key players to injuries. Adams left the field on a stretcher after getting hit in the head during a tackle by Danny Trevathan in the third quarter. Running back Ty Montgomery was knocked out in the first quarter with a chest injury.

Linebacker Blake Martinez also left with an undisclosed injury.

The Packers capitalized on an awful start by Bears quarterback Mike Glennon, who accounted for four turnovers.

The Green Bay Packers have placed veteran long snapper Brett Goode on injured reserve with a hamstring injury he suffered in Sunday’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals and signed rookie long snapper Taybor Pepper, who was with the team for part of the offseason program.

Goode suffered his injury early on against the Bengals but toughed it out, snapping for the game-tying extra point at the end of regulation and for the game-winning field goal in overtime.

The team’s health issues won’t be helped by the short week, as the Packers prepare to host the Chicago Bears on Thursday.